Stokely v. Conner
Supreme Court of Florida
Appeal from Circuit Court for St. Johns County; Geo. Couper Gibbs, Judge. STATEMENT. The appellees filed their bill in equity in the Circuit Court of St. Johns County against the appellants alleging and praying therein as follows: “Your orators, Mary B. Conner, Caroline C. Chapman, Sallie E. Conner, Julia C. Conner, Mary E. Conner, Nannie C. Young, Arthur R. Young, Caroline Conner and Henry W. Conner, all of the City of Charleston, State of South Carolina, bring this their…
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Appeal from Circuit Court for St. Johns County; Geo. Couper Gibbs, Judge. STATEMENT. The appellees filed their bill in equity in the Circuit Court of St. Johns County against the appellants alleging and praying therein as follows: “Your orators, Mary B. Conner, Caroline C. Chapman, Sallie E. Conner, Julia C. Conner, Mary E. Conner, Nannie C. Young, Arthur R. Young, Caroline Conner and Henry W. Conner, all of the City of Charleston, State of South Carolina, bring this their Bill of complaint against Harry M. Stokely, Wells R. Stokely, and W. Z. Haymans of the County of St. Johns and State of…
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, C. J.
(after stating the facts.) — To overturn said decree the appellants seem to reply here mainly upon the three propositions, vis: (1) That the appellees have not shown themselves- to have any title to the claimed undivided one-half interest in the particular one thousand acres described in the bill. That the undivided one-half interest in a 1000 acre grant shown to have been conveyed by Pedro Miranda to Joseph S. Sanchez and subsequently levied upon and sold under an execution and judgment against said Joseph S. Sanchez and purchased at the sale by the ancestor of the complainants below formed…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Sullivan v. RichardsonSupreme Court of Florida · 1894
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